The woman willing to make that change must become pregnant with herself, at last.
She must bear herself, her third self, her old age, with travail and alone.
Not many will help her with that birth.
-Ursula Le Guin, on becoming a crone
26.4.24
1.1.24
21.12.23
10.10.23
11.7.23
1.6.23
27.5.23
13.2.23
29.1.23
16.11.22
30.10.22
3.10.22
1.7.22
To narrate is to give oneself
It seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked.
So long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.
-Eduardo Galeano, 1978
from Days And Nights of Love and War
(1983)
22.3.22
13.11.21
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